Bel Air Health and Rehabilitation Center
410 East Mcphail Road, Bel Air MD 21014 · (410) 879-1120 · 81.8% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Bel Air Health and Rehabilitation Center is one of just a few facilities located in Bel Air, Maryland. Featuring an overall grade of C, this is likely a middle of the road facility. Based on our analysis, there are certainly much worse nursing homes out there. You also may want to review this facility's category grades below. We discuss short-term care in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 155 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
This facility really excelled in the area of short-term care, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. If it was not for this area, this facility's overall grade would have been much worse. In determining our short-term care scores, we assess the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is frequently a solid measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. This nursing home provided more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. This is what we like to find when assessing a nursing home in this category. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in this area with 63.9 percent of its residents returning home.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home's inspection score exceeded its overall grade as well. We gave them one of our better grades in that area, with a B. This is a notably better grade than its overall score. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.
Nurse Quality
This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. When computing our nursing scores, we factor in both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. Based on the CMS data, this nursing home offers 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also weigh quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed above average in this area.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we scored was long-term care, which was this nursing home's weakest area. We gave it an F for this category, which is clearly concerning. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category likely don't provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other nursing homes provide. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. We were a bit concerned this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to only 80 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Bel Air Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often the result of patients staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents that have had a fall resulting in severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be a sign of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Although more of these infections may reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are administered to patients for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of the decline of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of patients who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some would argue that this is a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better